Re: 2.6.0-test4-mm5

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:23:19PM +0200, Diego Calleja Garc?a wrote:
> El Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:32:49 +1000 Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> escribi?:
> 
> > Hmm... what's heavy gcc load?
> 
> make -j25 with 256 MB RAM.
> 
> My X server is reniced at -1; but reniced X to -10 and it didn't helped;
> -j15 was better (less swapping) but still I saw various mp3 & mouse skips.

And this worked good with Con's scheduler?

Try both schedulers on the same base (test4), and see if you see similair
differences.

I doubt it's the scheduler that's causing this problem.  Once you get into
swap like that, the scheduler shouldn't affect it too much...